Monday, October 02, 2006

The Chicago Tribune has a great feature on footworkin', a dance form created in (and largely indigenous to) Chicago's south side. Four good videos worth checking out. Sorry, can't embed them; here's a YouTube example for instant gratification:

Even though footworkin' is now getting covered in mass media, it's still far behind krumping (made famous by the 2005 documentary Rize). And since I haven't witnessed krumping at any Fallon fiestas, we may have to adjust our 9 month Brinker culture curve before predicting exactly when we'll see Adrian (let alone Greg) kill some raw beats. In the meantime, another example: